Japanese American Internment Camps

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Japanese American Internment CampsNicolas Ventura Gabriel Martin

Andrea VazquezLisa VasquezWho: Japanese Americans

What: Japanese Internment CampsWhen: Suspicion started on the 7th of December in 1941 (Camps began 6 months after)Where: the United StatesWhy: The malicious disaster known as Pearl Harbor was conducted by Japan. This widely known event led people to assume that many japanese-americans were spies for Japan.How: Japanese families were ordered to leave their homes and forced to live in prison like internment campsTime in HistoryWhat Happened6 months after the attack of Pearl Harbor, hundreds of thousands of Japanese-Americans were forced into rural and unsanitary internment camps because of the ever powerful paranoia of them being spy's for Japan. How it fits the definition of a "Witch Hunt"The U.S. did not trust Japanese people due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were believed to be secret spies. As a result of their paranoia, the accused Japanese were evacuated into camps where they had to work and suffer. The AccusedAny person of Japanese descent was accused of being a possible spy.What Society LearnedWhy it is important todayIt left a dark mark on our nation's record of respecting civil liberties and cultural differences.It also gave the world a good example of a mistake filled with inequality and paranoia to learn from.Period 6What Happened (cont.)Work CitedSean McCollum, Bias of war: recalling the racial hysteria of WW2 internment camps, Japanese-americans try to stop history from repeatingAfter two years of being held in those horrendous internment camps, the captives were finally returned to freedom.On January 2, 1945, the order to imprison allJapanese americans was bypassed.Once the American people saw and heard of how every seen Japanese-American was imprisoned for a crime few truly were guilty of (of being a spy), many Americans learned that what we did to them was wrong.

What Society LearnedAlong with this new found respect for Japanese-Americans came a lessening of racial tension and animosity.There, they were treated harshly,often beaten brutally, and lost almost all of their belongings.The newly freed internees were each given a train ticket to their former living settlements and a measly twenty five dollars.What Happened (cont.)Justin Ewers, Former Japanese-American internees fight to preserve internment camps.